Wittmann Tiger Normandie.

Article about: Always been interested in the Tank battles around Caen in France. Especially those with the 101 Schwere SS Panzers. The famous picture of Wittmanns destroyed turretless Tiger has always fasc

Possibly during it's removal, the Tiger was "pulled" forward off it's tracks. Hence the position of the Turret.

You're quite correct - the famous ( and unique ) pic shows no sign of the tracks, either on the tank or in the grass. The French scrap dealers got to work very quickly after the war and it wasn't hard to knock out a track pin, hitch a tractor to the tank and pull it forward off the tracks.

( Fantasy thought : if those guys had put the tracks in a barn somewhere their families could be wealthy now.... ' Original Track Link From Michael Wittmann's Tiger : £5000.00 BIN or Make Me An Offer....' )

I think you're right - it was a good documentary and was shown over here on Channel 4 IIRC a few years ago. Sadly, I don't think it's available on DVD. It presented a reasonably convincing case for the Sherbrookes having 'got' Wittmann from cover at Gaumesnil, physically much closer to the Tigers than the Northants were.

At this stage, no-one is ever going to be 100% certain but for sure, the Tigers drove straight into a perfect trap and literally had nowhere to hide. Here's a photo I took in the late '90s looking across the general area where Wittmann was killed - it almost looks like a shooting range. Interesting point : although I didn't realize it at the time, the concrete pylons are the originals which were there in 1944......